t them in a seed bed
with a board all the way around. My father is blind in one eye, couldn't
tell a chestnut from a weed, and he pulled up the weeds and he pulled
all the chestnuts up except one.

The fourth year I had better success, and I raised that year
400-and-some-odd chestnut seedlings, and I did more or less the Johnny
Appleseed stuff with those. I gave those away in the community. I am,
among other things, a banker, and I figured those would be as good as
calendars, and I have not been able to follow the history of them.
However, there is one of them I think is exceptional. It's a
self-pollinator and is bearing heavy crops, and I intend to follow that
particular tree up.

A genius, he is no better than any of the rest of us. All a genius is is
a fellow that's got good digestion so he can eat enough to work long
hours and good eyesight so he don't get tired.

So I was reading in a magazine about the Crath English walnut. They sent
the Reverend Mr. Crath over to Poland before the war, and I got four
pounds of those nuts he collected, and planted them. And every spring a
cold spell would come along and get them before I could cut any grafts
off of them. And I planted a Nebraska pecan and got some grafts from it,
and my wife said that tree never did have a chance because I kept
cutting the prunes off so they couldn't grow. I got several to growing,
and then they didn't fill out the nuts.

I was talking to a good doctor here from Baltimore last night. We ate
dinner, at the same table here, and I told him I didn't see but one
thing wrong with this Northern Nut Growers Association: It needed a lot
of young people in it, because if it didn't they were going to have to
hold a reunion over at the cemetery.

I have done a lot of grafting, and I am not going into the details of
that. I am going to say that I am glad to be here, I give you greetings
from Kentucky, and I hope that I will meet you all again.

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President Davidson: That certainly was refreshing, Dr. Moss. We enjoyed
it.

Next on the program is Dr. Aubrey Richards, Whiteville, Tennessee, who
is not here. Nuts for West Tennessee is the subject of that paper, and
Secretary MacDaniel will read it for us.

Nut Trees for West Tennessee

AUBREY RICHARDS, M.D., Whiteville, Tennessee

At the present time I am attempting to grow 14 grafted varieties of
Chinese and Japanese chestnuts, plus numerous hybrids an